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Drive-by downloads: Can you get malware just from visiting a website?
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<blockquote data-quote="shmu26" data-source="post: 936983" data-attributes="member: 37647"><p>I see no evidence that the malware executes without the user actually running the download.</p><p>What I do see is that it disguises itself as an ordinary program that the user installed or that came along with his operating system, so he might inadvertently run the program, as illustrated in the above post by [USER=85179]@SecurityNightmares[/USER]. That is pretty nasty, but it's not the same thing as an auto-executing download.</p><p></p><p>I still claim that it is quite rare to see a case where a user visits a website, and malware is downloaded <strong>and executed</strong> without user intervention. At the end of the day, you gotta click on it, or it just won't run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shmu26, post: 936983, member: 37647"] I see no evidence that the malware executes without the user actually running the download. What I do see is that it disguises itself as an ordinary program that the user installed or that came along with his operating system, so he might inadvertently run the program, as illustrated in the above post by [USER=85179]@SecurityNightmares[/USER]. That is pretty nasty, but it's not the same thing as an auto-executing download. I still claim that it is quite rare to see a case where a user visits a website, and malware is downloaded [B]and executed[/B] without user intervention. At the end of the day, you gotta click on it, or it just won't run. [/QUOTE]
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